Your wagons come a long way Benj, love your commitment

Look forward to seeing where this goes from here

its getting there ben..
considering its metallic, before you spray clear on it give it another coat of colour and then spray clear over that before it cures..
because if you rub metallic paint down before you clear it you will see the rub marks under the clear in the metallic..

Bloody good stuff there Ben. another half day tomorrow then?

Josh

Nah, Angle Grinder

hey Ben, have you got a Front Rebar for an EB/ED?

Not a spare one mate. Only have what is behind the Black Bar, and that was my spare.

BenJ

Anyone, need one for Friday night.

What do you want to do with it? I have a spare ED front bar that I will be fitting to my car that could be borrowed if it is for testing only.....

Cheers
RD

Thanks RD but it will need it for more than testing. Its cool will go ahead with what we have.

No probs

SWC , do you need the fibreglass reo thingie from the inside of the bar for cutting up , ill check when i get home tommorows if i got 1 here for ya other wise give me a call but i do have a EF EL reo at work if you want to play around with

MRE, we need an EB/ED one.

BenJ

Ben doesnt but I do!
Someone just needs to ring me on Friday arvo so I remember to bring it. Looks like Ill be bringing the ute out now if you want me to bring it.

Hi All.

The good news is that the bonnet was clear coated before the Walk in the Park car show at Doyalson on Sunday.

The bad news is, I still have a lot to learn when it comes to painting, specifically, how to set up my spray gun. After discussions with those more experienced than I, it would seem that I have too much flow, and a very narrow spray pattern. This caused a lovely stripey effect in my clear coat application, with LOTS of overspray.

This was not a lost case however. I sanded the clear I applied with 800 and then 1200 wet and dry, before going to visit my good friend, Dr Dave.

Dr Dave kindly offered to apply the clear coat for me. On Saturday afternoon, despite the high winds, he lay down three good coats of clear on the bonnet. I took the opportunity to observe, ask questions, and learn how the paint should be flowing etc.

But enough of me blathering on about my lack of experience. Pics!!





These photos were taken this afternoon.

As I indicated above the clear was applied on Saturday afternoon. I drove up to the Doyalson car show on Sunday morning, and all I did was spray some water on the bonnet and shammy it dry. I was very happy to see the Black Pearl paint glittering and shining in the sunlight. The bonnet will be buffed just before the Sydney All Ford Day on the 31st.

Overall, I am very pleased with my first stab at prep and painting. I can see a couple of areas that I could improve on, but given the conditions etc, it looks great.

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And as a bonus today, here are some pics of something else I have been working on.





I have been working on this occassionally over the last six months. I have hand filed all the large casting dags off, and am now in the process of sanding the rest of the surface. I have started to sand off the word 'INTEC' and intend to leave the '4.0' there. I want to achieve a nice smooth finish before applying some colour.

Cheers
BenJ

Have you decided what colour you were going? as the posts a few pages back it seemed like you were unsure (or maybe i missed ya decision )